Bob Hartigan

Bob Hartigan was an American dockworker who lived in Philadelphia during the 1970s. In 1975, he took a loan of $200 from loanshark Tony Gazzo, who sent Rocky Balboa to collect the debt money on 26 November 1975. Balboa confronted Hartigan at the docks, and Hartigan failed in his attempt to escape on his forklife. Balboa cornered Hartigan, who gave Balboa $130, saying that he was broke; he offered his coat for the remaining $70, but Balboa told him to keep the coat. He also told him that he was supposed to break Hartigan's thumbs if he was unable to pay him back, but he did not, and Hartigan claimed that he would fake injuries so that Gazzo wouldn't notice.